Activity+Suggestions

Student Activity Suggestions

 * Create a class wall timeline or/and have students keep individual timelines with historically significant people and events recorded on them.


 * Place a series of pictures in chronological order, explaining why they are placed in the order they are.


 * Compare two or more documents from different time periods and explain what changed and what remained the same over time.


 * Assess progress and decline from the standpoints of various groups since a certain point in time.


 * Present students with a list of objects and customs and ask them to indicate whether they were present at the earlier point in history.


 * On a T-chart have students identify the "best of times" and the "worst of times" for an era they have studied.Then have them repeat the activity from a particular person or group's perspective.


 * Have students compare and contrast an event, activity, institution from two different periods of time.


 * Invite students to find common elements between activities or events in two different time periods.


 * Present students with a theme and then have them trace its evolution over several centuries. Also, have them indicate the tipping and turning points in its history.

Continuity and Change